Sewall v. Spinney Creek Oyster Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure governing pleadings generally apply to petitions for review of government agency action brought pursuant to the APA
• stating that the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure governing pleadings generally apply to petitions for review of government agency action brought pursuant to the APA
• noting cases where courts have found that it was not clear from the record that there was a failure to swear a witness, and therefore the regularity of proceedings is presumed
• “[T]he swearing of witnesses may be relinquished through a genuine act of waiver, or may be forfeited by procedural default.”
• “Some authorities have questioned the value of the oath” while other “courts have gone so far as to deem the swearing of witnesses in particular contexts to be a constitutional requirement, as a component of constitutional due process of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).